Keep in mind the nature of polarity, the yin and the yang. We are driven by our heart and guided by our head. The anarchy of desire versus the tyranny of judgement. Life is learning to turn that flame within into a finely tuned machine, from the the raw burning appetite. Wisdom is not seeing new things, but seeing the same things from every possible angle, so you see what they are, not just how they appear. A tree as a stitch between the sky and ground, not just branches and leaves.

Any society in history will have theose seeking to transcend conventions and culture, versus those seeking to strengthen and sustain it. Expand, consolidate. Growth rings on the tree.

It is just that in our cultural paradigm of monist idealism, both side see themselves on the road to nirvana and those going the other way as misbegotten fools.

A spiritual absolute would be the essence of sentience, from which we rise, not an ideal of wisdom and judgement, from which we fell. That we are aware, rather than the details of which we are aware.

When we conflate the elemental with the aspirational, the Other becomes an affront to our own One True God and there can be no live and let live.

After ten thousand years of 'go forth and multiply,' we've reached the edge of the petri dish and it's time to turn around and take stock of where we are.

What goes round, comes round.